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Jordan KOUBY (ISTS 2006) and Frédéric VECTOL (ISTS 2006) Sound engineers, mixers, directors and founders of the QDS studio were the guests at an ISTS masterclass on April 20, hosted by Jean-Christophe BELVAL. The two sound professionals came to meet...

ESRA Côte d'Azur welcomed director Jean-Xavier DE LESTRADE on April 5 at the Georges Méliès campus in Cannes. Author of numerous documentaries, TV series and feature-length fiction films, Jean-Xavier DE LESTRADE won the Oscar for Best Film...

The Graduation Ceremony of the DESFA, degree d'Études Supérieures en Film d'Animation took place on Wednesday April 13, 2022, at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Nicolas DEVEAUX, writer and director, was the patron of the class of 2021. He works on a number of...

Second-year ESRA and ISTS students are working with the children of the Fondation Action Enfance for the 5th year running. Four teams are taking part in Action Enfance fait son cinéma projects, involving young people in the Villages...

Director Jérôme SALLE came to meet students at ESRA Thursday on March 10. His film Zulu was screened before the meeting. Jérôme SALLE left school early and started working at the age of 16. Assistant photographer for the press, then...

Director, screenwriter and actor Emmanuel COURCOL was the guest at the last ESRA Thursday of the season, on March 31. After the screening of his film Cessez-le-Feu, students met the director. An actor in his early days, Emmanuel COURCOL...

The ESRA 48H awards ceremony was held on Saturday March 19 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. The competition, organized by the Osmoz BDE students, took place in February. For 48 hours, teams of students wrote, shot and edited a film of 1 to 3 minutes...

The school organized a Professional Encounters day on March 18, 2022. During the day, ESRA Group students were able to meet with companies and professionals from all sectors of the audiovisual, sound and animation industries....

First Assistant Director Stéphane GLUCK (ESRA 1986) was the guest of ESRA Thursdays on March 3, 2022 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. After the screening of Luc BESSON's Valérian et la cité des mille planètes, students met Stéphane GLUCK....

The 10th edition of the ESRA 48H was held from Friday February 25 to Sunday February 27, 2022. The competition is organized by student members of the Osmoz BDE and consists of writing, shooting and editing a film lasting no more than 5 minutes in 48 hours,...

Director and screenwriter Bernard STORA was the guest of the ESRA Thursdays on February 10, 2022 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. Students attended the screening of Bernard STORA's latest film, Villa Caprice, starring Niels ARESTRUP and Patrick...

ESRA students take part in the 12th Nikon Film Festival on the theme of "Un Rêve". This year's jury is chaired by Gilles LELLOUCHE and includes Audrey DIWAN, Lyna KHOUDRI, Augustin TRAPENARD and Pierre LESCURE. If the films...

Producer and director Stéphane DEMOUSTIER was the guest of the ESRA Thursdays on January 20, 2022 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. After viewing his latest feature film, La fille au Bracelet, released in February 2020, students met Stéphane...

The special César 2022 Aftershort evenings organized by ESRA, in partnership with Format Court, took place on December 7 and 15, 2021 and January 11 and 18, 2022 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Margaux LORIER, producer of the César for Best Short Film...

As part of the Music for Film course, Professor Michael HEARST invited filmmakers Fanny LIATARD and Jérémy TROUILH to present their film Gagarine and share anecdotes from the shoot with ESRA New York students. Released on June 23...

French director and actor Emmanuel MOURET was the guest at ESRA's Jeudis de l'ESRA on December 2, in the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Emmanuel MOURET's latest film, Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'ont fait, released in 2020, was screened for the students before the...

Film director, screenwriter and director Mohamed HAMIDI was the guest of ESRA's Jeudis de l'ESRA on November 25, at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. After attending the screening of Né Quelque Part, the students exchanged views with Mohamed HAMIDI, notably on...

Jonathan BRECHER, artistic advisor at TF1, met with DHEC students (Département des Hautes Études Cinématographiques) on Wednesday November 24, 2021 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. As a member of TF1's art department, Jonathan BRECHER is in charge of...

Michael GABRION, series/tv literary director at Gaumont, spoke to DHEC students on Tuesday November 9. A former journalist specializing in cinema, he talked to the students about his career path. Michael GABRION is now...

Director Arnold DE PARSCAU (ESRA 2011) spoke at a masterclass at ESRA Bretagne on October 29, 2021. Arnold DE PARSCAU (ESRA 2011), noticed in 2011 for the video clip of the song Good Day Today, composed by David LYNCH. He directed his first...

Director and screenwriter Charlotte SILVERA was the first guest of season 18 of ESRA Thursdays, on October 28, 2021 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Following a screening of C'est la tangente que je préfère, the students met the director, who...

The special Cannes 2021 Aftershort evening organized by ESRA, in partnership with Format Court, took place on October 20, 2021 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. ESRA students and alumni were able to meet 11 professionals representing 2...

To mark the release of Maxime ROY's (ESRA 2010) first feature film "Les Héroïques", presented as a special screening at the Cannes 2021 Film Festival, ESRA students attended a screening of the film in the presence of the director on October 25 at the...

From September to March, ESRA Bretagne organizes Masterclasses in partnership with the TNB cinema and the Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles of the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rennes. September retrospective. ▪︎ Screening of the film Outrage by Ida LUPINO,...